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Latin
Etymology
From dē- + prēhendo (“seize, catch”); from pre- (“before”) + *hendo (used only in comp.); akin to Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “hold, contain”) and English get.
Pronunciation
Verb
dēprehendō (present infinitive dēprehendere, perfect active dēprehendī, supine dēprehēnsum); third conjugation
- to take away, seize, snatch, catch
- Synonyms: comprehendō, apprehendō, prehēnsō, prehendō, capiō, possideō, occupō, potior, arripiō, corripiō, capessō, sūmō
- to overtake
- to surprise, apprehend, detect, find out, discover
- Synonyms: opprimō, prehendō
- to confine
- to embarrass
- to comprehend, understand, perceive, detect, discover, discern, observe
- Synonyms: apprehendō, comprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, apīscor, exaudiō, capiō, complector, cōnsequor, excipiō
- Antonyms: nesciō, ignōrō
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References
- “deprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deprehendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take forcible possession of a letter: epistulam deprehendere
- to catch a person, find him out: deprehendere aliquem (in aliqua re)
- to take a person in the act: deprehendere aliquem in manifesto scelere
- to capture a boat: navem capere, intercipere, deprehendere